Memorable Moments
- The birth of my children
- Meeting my grandson when he was just an hour old
- Seeing my first book published
- Meeting Nelson Mandela – 12 times
- Participating in the 75thanniversary of the D-Day landings memorial services – Bayeux, Normandy and attending a service in the Cathedral and also the War Cemetery, in Bayeux, Normandy, France, the first town to be liberated, on 6 June, 2019 – exactly 75 years after the D-Day Landings. Read more
- My investiture into the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem
- Being mugged and stranded in New York (with three children) and no taxi fare to the airport to fly home – and being lent money by a stranger – a black South African – during the apartheid era
- Raising the money to mount the first full scale black opera in South Africa
- Being asked to stand for political office by three separate parties in 1994, for South Africa’s first democratic election – and declining them all
- Assisting in arranging a memorial service for Archbishop Desmond Tutu (whom I knew and loved) at Westminster Abbey, London
